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Hard Cover. Limited edition of 875 copies only, of which this is no. 142. Quarto, pp. xlv, [1], 187, [1]. With 41 colour plates and maps. Bound in quarter green morocco and marbled paper over boards; gilt fillets parallel to spine; 4 raised spine bands with gilt fillets, gilt spine title; green endpapers; all edges gilt. Housed in a green wove cloth covered slipcase. Slipcase lightly rubbed to edges. Fine book in a near fine slipcase. Beautifully illustrated travel journal of naturalist George Clayton Atkinson (1808-1877) who was also the biographer of Thomas Bewick. Edited and introduced by A. V. Seaton, and signed by him to the limitation leaf. Includes an illuminating biography of Clayton, his travel companions, and the artists who produced the superb water-colour sketches which illustrate the manuscript.